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* ''Franchise/CthulhuMythos'': The Hounds of Tindalos chase down time travellers; the only way to hold them off is to eliminate all angles in the immediate area, since they can only travel through these. Note that they're not portrayed as necessary or helpful; they just '''[[EldritchAbomination are]]'''.

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* ''Franchise/CthulhuMythos'': The Hounds of Tindalos Literature/TheHoundsOfTindalos chase down time travellers; the only way to hold them off is to eliminate all angles in the immediate area, since they can only travel through these. Note that they're not portrayed as necessary or helpful; they just '''[[EldritchAbomination are]]'''.

* After pausing time to clean up a house party at the end of the previous season, season 2 of ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' introduces the time police in the form of Shleemypants, a fourth-dimensional being with a living gun who intends to arrest Rick, Morty, and Summer for messing with time.

* A more comedic example appears in ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty''. Rick, Morty, and Summer end up in a dimension of uncertainty where they seem to exist in two or more timelines at once, and their attempts to fix the problem eventually attracts the attention of a creature from the 4th dimension, who behaves much more like a neighbor complaining about noise than an EldritchAbomination.

* The ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'' has [[spoiler:the Wolf]] in Shining Armor's Arc which [[spoiler:erases things that aren't supposed to exist, such as anachronisms brought into being by a non-God RealityWarper]]. The good news? [[spoiler:It's after the BigBad, Makarov/[[HumanoidAbomination the Shadow of Chernobull]] and is implied to be one of the ways Shining can stop him]]. The bad news? [[spoiler:Shining is ImmuneToFate due to being a temporal distortion, meaning it's after ''him''.]] However, [[spoiler:it obeys the Gods, so having Cadence nearby gives him protection.]]

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* ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'':** The ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'' has [[spoiler:the Wolf]] Blank Wolf in Shining Armor's Arc which [[spoiler:erases arc erases things that aren't supposed to exist, such as anachronisms brought into being by a non-God RealityWarper]]. RealityWarper. The good news? [[spoiler:It's after the BigBad, Makarov/[[HumanoidAbomination the Shadow of Chernobull]] Chernobull]], and is implied to be one of the ways Shining can stop him]]. The bad news? [[spoiler:Shining is ImmuneToFate due to being a temporal distortion, meaning it's after ''him''.]] However, [[spoiler:it obeys the Gods, so having Cadence nearby gives him protection.]]

* ''ComicBook/UltimateFantasticFour'': The spider-shaped Argiopes, who would eat any time travel-created doubles to avoid paradoxes.

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* ''ComicBook/UltimateFantasticFour'': The spider-shaped Argiopes, who would eat any ''Aztec Ace'' includes "Doxie-Glitches", which are giant monsters that show up when a paradox threatens time travel-created doubles to avoid paradoxes.and fix it by killing everyone in the vicinity.

* ''Aztec Ace'' includes "Doxie-Glitches", which are giant monsters that show up when a paradox threatens time and fix it by killing everyone in the vicinity.

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* ''Aztec Ace'' includes "Doxie-Glitches", which are giant monsters that show up when a paradox threatens ''ComicBook/UltimateFantasticFour'': The spider-shaped Argiopes, who would eat any time and fix it by killing everyone in the vicinity.travel-created doubles to avoid paradoxes.

* The "agent-in-place" from ''FanFic/HarryPotterAndTheNightmaresOfFuturesPast'' is a somewhat less omnivorous version of this trope. We don't know a lot about him, but he is apparently at Hogwarts, knows of the original timeline, and is working behind the scenes to ensure that certain events (such as Ginny getting possessed by the Diary Horcrux) come to pass in spite of Harry's manipulations. Notable in that Harry has no idea the agent-in-place exists, and therefore doesn't know ''why'' certain things seem determined to happen.

* The "agent-in-place" from ''FanFic/HarryPotterAndTheNightmaresOfFuturesPast'' is a somewhat less omnivorous version of this trope. We don't know a lot about him, but he is apparently at Hogwarts, knows of the original timeline, and is working behind the scenes to ensure that certain events (such as Ginny getting possessed by the Diary Horcrux) come to pass in spite of Harry's manipulations. Notable in that Harry has no idea the agent-in-place exists, and therefore doesn't know ''why'' certain things seem determined to happen.

* In the [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffyverse]] collection of short stories, ''Tales of the Slayer, Volume 2'', the short story ''Again'' by Jane Espenson has these after Buffy, Willow, and Xander are returned to their high-school selves. The roaches in this case manifest as mobile shadows that attach themselves to things they find in the wrong time, causing excruciating pain as they (presumably) eat them. They appear to be somewhat physical, as Buffy manages to cut one off of her arm, cutting her arm in the process.* ''Franchise/CthulhuMythos'': The Hounds of Tindalos chase down time travellers; the only way to hold them off is to eliminate all angles in the immediate area, since they can only travel through these. Note that they're not portrayed as necessary or helpful; they just '''[[EldritchAbomination are]]'''.

* ''Franchise/CthulhuMythos'': The Hounds of Tindalos chase down time travellers; the only way to hold them off is to eliminate all angles in the immediate area, since they can only travel through these. Note that they're not portrayed as necessary or helpful; they just '''[[EldritchAbomination are]]'''.

* In the [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffyverse]] collection of short stories, ''Tales of the Slayer, Volume 2'', the short story ''Again'' by Jane Espenson has these after Buffy, Willow, and Xander are returned to their high-school selves. The roaches in this case manifest as mobile shadows that attach themselves to things they find in the wrong time, causing excruciating pain as they (presumably) eat them. They appear to be somewhat physical, as Buffy manages to cut one off of her arm, cutting her arm in the process.

** The Reapers, [[MonsterOfTheWeek Flying Killer Time Gargoyles]] from "Father's Day". The Ninth Doctor describes them in terms similar to white blood cells -- when a paradox is triggered, they clean up the "wound" by erasing everything inside it. "Before" the Time War, the Gallifreyans kept paradoxes in order in a much less destructive way, but now they're gone.** The original series serial "The Time Monster" has the Chronovores, which are similar enough to the Reapers (giant winged things that eat people's timelines) that they may as well be considered a related critter. It's worth mentioning that the Chronovores were fleshed out in a novel by Paul Cornell, who later wrote "Father's Day". Some fans speculate that he wanted to feature Chronovores in "Father's Day" but was prevented by some sort of legal issue. Given we know The Doctor [[UnreliableExpositor just makes things up sometimes]], they could even be the same creatures and he just made up a different name for them this time.

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** The Reapers, [[MonsterOfTheWeek Flying Killer Time Gargoyles]] from "Father's Day". The Ninth Doctor describes them in terms similar to white blood cells -- when a paradox is triggered, they clean up the "wound" by erasing everything inside it. "Before" the Time War, the Gallifreyans kept paradoxes in order in a much less destructive way, but now they're gone.** The original series serial [[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E5TheTimeMonster "The Time Monster" Monster"]] has the Chronovores, which are similar enough to the Reapers (giant winged things that eat people's timelines) that they may as well be considered a related critter. It's worth mentioning that the Chronovores were fleshed out in a novel by Paul Cornell, who later wrote "Father's Day". Some fans speculate that he wanted to feature Chronovores in "Father's Day" but was prevented by some sort of legal issue. Given we know The the Doctor [[UnreliableExpositor just makes things up sometimes]], they could even be the same creatures and he just made up a different name for them this time.time.** The Reapers, [[MonsterOfTheWeek Flying Killer Time Gargoyles]] from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E8FathersDay "Father's Day"]]. The Ninth Doctor describes them in terms similar to white blood cells -- when a paradox is triggered, they clean up the "wound" by erasing everything inside it. "Before" the Time War, the Gallifreyans kept paradoxes in order in a much less destructive way, but now they're gone.

** A speedster careless meddling with the past risks summoning a Time Wraith to seek out and destroy the meddler. When Barry asks [[spoiler:Thawne]] why he has never encountered them before, he is told that he's been incredibly lucky. Besides, at most, he's affected one day before (when stopping Mardon and Savage). [[spoiler:[[BigBad Zoom's]] careless use of a speedster's time travel abilities ultimately catches up to him when Barry lures the Time Wraiths out and gives him too much of a beating to escape. The Time Wraiths age Zoom nearly into a skeleton and then [[DraggedOffToHell drag him away screaming to a]] FateWorseThanDeath.]]

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** A speedster careless carelessly meddling with the past risks summoning a Time Wraith to seek out and destroy the meddler. When Barry asks [[spoiler:Thawne]] why he has never encountered them before, he is told that he's been incredibly lucky. Besides, at most, he's affected one day before (when stopping Mardon and Savage). [[spoiler:[[BigBad Zoom's]] careless use of a speedster's time travel abilities ultimately catches up to him when Barry lures the Time Wraiths out and gives him too much of a beating to escape. The Time Wraiths age Zoom nearly into a skeleton and then [[DraggedOffToHell drag him away screaming to a]] FateWorseThanDeath.]]

* In the AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho audio plays, they have Vortisaurs, creatures who live in the time vortex and are attracted to temporal anomalies. They're usually vicious, but the Doctor manages to tame one.

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* In the AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' audio plays, they have Vortisaurs, creatures who live in the time vortex Time Vortex and are attracted to temporal anomalies. They're usually vicious, but the Doctor manages to tame one.

* In ''TabletopGame/{{Continuum}}'', the players themselves are TimePolice. However, if the players fail, Clock Roaches known as Inheritors show up to clean things up, and the game makes it clear that you do ''not'' want to get in their way.* Among the many, ''many'' [[OurAngelsAreDifferent possible designations for Angels]] in ''TabletopGame/DemonTheDescent'' is "Time Hunter", which denotes an angel charged with slipping between different timestreams and temporal splinters in order to eliminate quantum ghosts and other temporally-displaced individuals who might tangle up the timelines. Unusually for this trope, they're also charged with eliminating individuals in order to ''create'' temporal splinters or timeline divergences as well as eliminating those who inadvertently get caught up in temporal anomalies.

* In ''TabletopGame/{{Continuum}}'', the players themselves are TimePolice. However, if the players fail, Clock Roaches known as Inheritors show up to clean things up, and the game makes it clear that you do ''not'' want to get in their way.* ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension'': Wrinkle is the Paradox Spirit that shows up to deal with people who have pushed their luck one too many times in tampering with how things should be, especially temporally. If the mage apologizes for what they did and agrees that they shouldn't have done it, then Wrinkle does the actual work of rewinding events to the point where the offending RealityWarper can try something else. If not, then he traps the mage in a time pocket until they give in... or in some cases, rumor has it, he rewrites time so that the offender was [[RetGone never born]]. He is ''[[BigBad the]]'' most powerful Paradox spirit in Mage by an order of magnitude.

* ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension'': Wrinkle is the Paradox Spirit that shows up to deal with people who have pushed their luck one too many times in tampering with how things should be, especially temporally. If the mage apologizes for what they did and agrees that they shouldn't have done it, then Wrinkle does the actual work of rewinding events to the point where the offending RealityWarper can try something else. If not, then he traps the mage in a time pocket until they give in... or in some cases, rumor has it, he rewrites time so that the offender was [[RetGone never born]]. He is ''[[BigBad the]]'' most powerful Paradox spirit in Mage by an order of magnitude.

* Among the many, ''many'' [[OurAngelsAreDifferent possible designations for Angels]] in ''TabletopGame/DemonTheDescent'' is "Time Hunter", which denotes an angel charged with slipping between different timestreams and temporal splinters in order to eliminate quantum ghosts and other temporally-displaced individuals who might tangle up the timelines. Unusually for this trope, they're also charged with eliminating individuals in order to ''create'' temporal splinters or timeline divergences as well as eliminating those who inadvertently get caught up in temporal anomalies.

* ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaWarriorWithin'' has the Dahaka, a guardian of time that hunts the Prince in order to restore time to its original flow. It's implied that whenever someone changes the past, a Dahaka shows up to deal with it -- the first one was ''created'' when the Prince tampered with time, and a second comes up to deal with his second attempt to fix his own mistake in the game. [[spoiler: If you get the GoldenEnding, you kill the Dahaka, and the Empress of Time sails away with you. Thus the Sands of Time are not created in the past. (They get created when the Empress is killed.)]]* ''VideoGame/{{Singularity}}'' has mutants, creatures, and strange plants that were spawned from time travel shenanigans.* In ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'', Ingram Pliskin and his [[spoiler: clone]] Cobray are secretly these. According to Ingram in an exposition, every universe is given only one (hence why Cobray's powers didn't manifest until after [[spoiler: Ingram was dead]]), and that their job is to protect causality by ''deleting from existence any force that threatens it''.

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* ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaWarriorWithin'' has ''VideoGame/BlinxTheTimeSweeper'': All the Dahaka, a guardian of time that hunts monsters except the Prince in order to restore time to its original flow. It's implied that whenever someone changes the past, a Dahaka shows up to deal with it -- the first one was ''created'' when the Prince tampered with time, and a second comes up to deal with his second attempt to fix his own mistake in the game. [[spoiler: If you get the GoldenEnding, you kill the Dahaka, and the Empress of Time sails away with you. Thus the Sands of Time main antagonists are not created in the past. (They get created when the Empress is killed.)]]* ''VideoGame/{{Singularity}}'' has mutants, creatures, and strange plants that were spawned from time travel shenanigans.* In ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'', Ingram Pliskin and his [[spoiler: clone]] Cobray are secretly these. According to Ingram in an exposition, every universe is given only one (hence why Cobray's powers didn't manifest until after [[spoiler: Ingram was dead]]), and that their job is to protect causality by ''deleting from existence any force that threatens it''.a result of a colossal TimeCrash. The plot revolves around eradicating them.

* In ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor2'', a major theme of the game is averting the pre-ordained deaths of the main characters, manipulating the AkashicRecords to suit your whims, and generally giving a big ol' middle finger to the Divine Order of the Universe. ''[[UpdatedRerelease Record Breaker]]'' has the Divine Order of the Universe respond to said defiance with the [[EldritchAbomination Triangulum]], a group of StarfishAliens even bigger and meaner than the Septentrions. The Triangulum has one goal: obliterate the [[PunyEarthlings irritating "malware"]] that keeps messing with the Records, so that the natural order can get back on track.* In the ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI'' expansion "Wings of the Goddess", The avatar Atomos is a mindless being that eats 'dispensable' time, including the memories anybody might have of alternative timelines that have become endangered due to the intervention of time travelers. All of this ends up dumped in the Walk of Echoes, a graveyard for everything that might have been.* In ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange'', [[spoiler:the tornado that destroys Arcadia Bay on Friday is actually the universe's attempt to undo Max's use of time travel to tamper with destiny.]]* ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaWarriorWithin'' has the Dahaka, a guardian of time that hunts the Prince in order to restore time to its original flow. It's implied that whenever someone changes the past, a Dahaka shows up to deal with it -- the first one was ''created'' when the Prince tampered with time, and a second comes up to deal with his second attempt to fix his own mistake in the game. [[spoiler: If you get the GoldenEnding, you kill the Dahaka, and the Empress of Time sails away with you. Thus the Sands of Time are not created in the past. (They get created when the Empress is killed.)]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Singularity}}'' has mutants, creatures, and strange plants that were spawned from time travel shenanigans.* In ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'', Ingram Pliskin and his [[spoiler: clone]] Cobray are secretly these. According to Ingram in an exposition, every universe is given only one (hence why Cobray's powers didn't manifest until after [[spoiler: Ingram was dead]]), and that their job is to protect causality by ''deleting from existence any force that threatens it''.* ''VideoGame/TimeShift'': The [[{{AFGNCAAP}} protagonist]] fits this role, as there is [[{{Flashback}} apparently]] a danger of the AlternateTimeline "colliding" with our own if the BigBad isn't stopped. What exactly this [[RealityBreakingParadox would mean]] is not explored, suffice it to say [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt that would be bad]].

* In the ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI'' expansion "Wings of the Goddess", The avatar Atomos is a mindless being that eats 'dispensable' time, including the memories anybody might have of alternative timelines that have become endangered due to the intervention of time travelers. All of this ends up dumped in the Walk of Echoes, a graveyard for everything that might have been.* ''VideoGame/TimeShift'': The [[{{AFGNCAAP}} protagonist]] fits this role, as there is [[{{Flashback}} apparently]] a danger of the AlternateTimeline "colliding" with our own if the BigBad isn't stopped. What exactly this [[RealityBreakingParadox would mean]] is not explored, suffice it to say [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt that would be bad]].* ''VideoGame/BlinxTheTimeSweeper'': All the monsters except the main antagonists are a result of a colossal TimeCrash. The plot revolves around eradicating them.* In ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange'', [[spoiler:the tornado that destroys Arcadia Bay on Friday is actually the universe's attempt to undo Max's use of time travel to tamper with destiny.]]* In ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor2'', a major theme of the game is averting the pre-ordained deaths of the main characters, manipulating the AkashicRecords to suit your whims, and generally giving a big ol' middle finger to the Divine Order of the Universe. ''[[UpdatedRerelease Record Breaker]]'' has the Divine Order of the Universe respond to said defiance with the [[EldritchAbomination Triangulum]], a group of StarfishAliens even bigger and meaner than the Septentrions. The Triangulum has one goal: obliterate the [[PunyEarthlings irritating "malware"]] that keeps messing with the Records, so that the natural order can get back on track.

* Timeclones and altered timelines are not welcome in ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''. Any given Hero has an alpha timeline; mostly this only matters to the Hero whose purview is Time. Either way, any deviation from the alpha timeline, or extraneous instance of a given hero, caused by time travel shenanigans is doomed to die eventually, in some unfortunate and contrived manner if the universe can't scrounge up a good one. Although in the pre-[[ResetButton scratch]] kids' case, any session that does not deal with it [[spoiler: is destroyed by [[YinYangBomb The]] [[DoomsdayDevice Tumor]], a giant bomb buried in the center of the Battlefield.]]

-->'''Castle Heterodyne''': This stopping time foolishness-Robur Heterodyne discovered something like it three hundred years ago. Oh, yes. And yet, the Heterodynes-they who fear ''nothing''-turned their backs on this power. You brief humans think of time-if you think of it at all-as a ''natural'' thing. Ubiquitous. Inevitable. You are blind little fish in the waters of a vast, deep cave. There are… others who see time ''differently.'' When it is meddled with, they ''notice.''

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-->'''Castle Heterodyne''': Heterodyne:''' This stopping time foolishness-Robur Heterodyne discovered something like it three hundred years ago. Oh, yes. And yet, the Heterodynes-they who fear ''nothing''-turned their backs on this power. You brief humans think of time-if you think of it at all-as a ''natural'' thing. Ubiquitous. Inevitable. You are blind little fish in the waters of a vast, deep cave. There are… others who see time ''differently.'' When it is meddled with, they ''notice.''''* Timeclones and altered timelines are not welcome in ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''. Any given Hero has an alpha timeline; mostly this only matters to the Hero whose purview is Time. Either way, any deviation from the alpha timeline, or extraneous instance of a given hero, caused by time travel shenanigans is doomed to die eventually, in some unfortunate and contrived manner if the universe can't scrounge up a good one. Although in the pre-[[ResetButton scratch]] kids' case, any session that does not deal with it [[spoiler: is destroyed by [[YinYangBomb The]] [[DoomsdayDevice Tumor]], a giant bomb buried in the center of the Battlefield.]]

* Vector Prime of ''Anime/TransformersCybertron'' is shown in the ExpandedUniverse to have this sort of job, though he's far more personable than most examples and not nearly as unstoppable. The giant, all-consuming rift that shows up in the Time Wars arc of the UK comic fufills the trope more.

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* Vector Prime of ''Anime/TransformersCybertron'' is shown in the ExpandedUniverse to have this sort of job, though he's far more personable than most examples and not nearly as unstoppable. The giant, all-consuming rift that shows up in the Time Wars arc of the UK comic fufills the trope more.

[[folder:Real Life]]* Some interpretations of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandfather_paradox#Novikov_self-consistency_principle quantum mechanics]] imply that quantum effects act like Clock Roaches to prevent the formation of time paradoxes by negating attempts at creating them. [[/folder]]

* In ''Series/TheFlash2014'', careless meddling with the past risks summoning a Time Wraith to seek out and destroy the meddler. When Barry asks [[spoiler:Thawne]] why he has never encountered them before, he is told that he's been incredibly lucky. Besides, at most, he's affected one day before (when stopping Mardon and Savage). [[spoiler:[[BigBad Zoom's]] careless use of a speedster's time travel abilities ultimately catches up to him when Barry lures the Time Wraiths out and gives him too much of a beating to escape. The Time Wraiths age Zoom nearly into a skeleton and then [[DraggedOffToHell drag him away screaming to a]] FateWorseThanDeath.]]** Presumably, the Time Masters are careful enough to avoid the Time Wraiths in the ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' spin-off. So is [[BountyHunter Chronos]], probably.** It's implied that [[spoiler:Time Wraiths are former speedsters, who were caught by other Time Wraiths for messing around with time travel and turned into one of them]].

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* In ''Series/TheFlash2014'', ''Series/TheFlash2014'':** A speedster careless meddling with the past risks summoning a Time Wraith to seek out and destroy the meddler. When Barry asks [[spoiler:Thawne]] why he has never encountered them before, he is told that he's been incredibly lucky. Besides, at most, he's affected one day before (when stopping Mardon and Savage). [[spoiler:[[BigBad Zoom's]] careless use of a speedster's time travel abilities ultimately catches up to him when Barry lures the Time Wraiths out and gives him too much of a beating to escape. The Time Wraiths age Zoom nearly into a skeleton and then [[DraggedOffToHell drag him away screaming to a]] FateWorseThanDeath.]]** Presumably, the Time Masters are careful enough to avoid the Time Wraiths in the ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' spin-off. So is [[BountyHunter Chronos]], probably.** It's implied that [[spoiler:Time Wraiths are former speedsters, who were caught by other Time Wraiths for messing around with time travel and turned into one of them]].them.]] ** ''Non''-speedster time travelers don't seem to bother the Wraiths, as demonstrated on ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow''. Come season two, however, we get to see exactly what happened to [[spoiler: Zoom]] - he's been turned into the Black Flash and is now hunting Reverse-Flash for being a walking time paradox.

* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' has [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20140611#.U5vaj41dVFk these]] things. [[spoiler:Clock Eldritch Abominations might be more accurate. And even the ''Heterodynes'' were so scared of them they refused to try meddling with time again]].

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* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' has [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20140611#.U5vaj41dVFk these]] things. [[spoiler:Clock Eldritch Abominations Clock {{Eldritch Abomination}}s might be more accurate. [[spoiler:And the last time someone tried this stunt, TheDreaded ''Dreen'' showed up]].-->'''Castle Heterodyne''': This stopping time foolishness-Robur Heterodyne discovered something like it three hundred years ago. Oh, yes. And even yet, the ''Heterodynes'' were so scared Heterodynes-they who fear ''nothing''-turned their backs on this power. You brief humans think of them time-if you think of it at all-as a ''natural'' thing. Ubiquitous. Inevitable. You are blind little fish in the waters of a vast, deep cave. There are… others who see time ''differently.'' When it is meddled with, they refused to try meddling with time again]].''notice.''

* ''CthulhuMythos'': The Hounds of Tindalos chase down time travellers; the only way to hold them off is to eliminate all angles in the immediate area, since they can only travel through these. Note that they're not portrayed as necessary or helpful; they just '''[[EldritchAbomination are]]'''.

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* ''CthulhuMythos'': ''Franchise/CthulhuMythos'': The Hounds of Tindalos chase down time travellers; the only way to hold them off is to eliminate all angles in the immediate area, since they can only travel through these. Note that they're not portrayed as necessary or helpful; they just '''[[EldritchAbomination are]]'''.

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